Convinced classicist fan of Robert Adam and the French Art Deco, he draws up the interiors and creates furniture. To her design Thomas Fizant comes up with an antique sense of proportion. The designer told about his new collection of names for Baker to the magazine SALON – interior.

You have been working with BAKER for ten years. What has changed during this time?

- Working on the first collection for BAKER, I felt like a student in the exam. I was handed a list of items that I had to design according to specified standards. Even the number of drawers at the dressers was limited! This time is different. I was given creative freedom, not limited to any framework.

SALON: What things were you especially interested in working on?

- There are 75 items in the collection. The most difficult from an engineering point of view was the work on two of them. This is an Athens armchair, a variation on an antique chair, a klismos with curved legs, and an arcade table with a base in the form of a circular arcade. I really wanted to beat the motive of the arch and create such a support that would look like a sculpture in the interior.

S: And at the other table, the Column Dining Table, the supports are made in the form of Doric columns, which carry the tabletop-entablature. In the new collection there are a lot of antique motifs in general. Is classicism your creative credo?

- Yes, I am a classicist. I am inspired by the Greco-Roman art and neoclassical architecture, and also the French design of the mid-XX century, Ancient Egypt, the East ... But I am not a historian, copying is not interesting to me. Now I am working on a book that contains interiors created by me at different times. I began to think about the title ten years ago. The first thing that came to mind - "Modern Classicism." It turned out that a dozen interior books come out with such a name a year! Then I asked my clients how they see my work. Most of them described my interiors with the same words: “simplicity”, “balance”, “serene clarity”. And this is the essence of classical art.

S: For whom is the new collection created?

- While working on the new collection catalog, I painted different images in my imagination: a young, slightly conservative couple from Fifth Avenue or a young man who settled in the loft in the Soho area. The specifics of working on furniture is that you have to create things for complete strangers. And these things should be loved for them.